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Abstract
The paper examines Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy from the fertile lens of cartographical studies of space. Initially, it explores the relationship between cartography and Atwood’s literary oeuvre. Then, it draws upon Foucault’s theory of heterotopia to consider its relevance to Atwood’s Ustopia. It seeks to fill in the gap in the critical studies written on Atwood’s ustopian trilogy. The paper explores how Atwood has diegetically constructed ustopian cartographies in which dystopian spaces are permeated with heterotopic locations of utopian resistance. It attempts to elucidate that the diachronic analysis must be complemented by a synchronic analysis of space. It develops the hypothesis that the ustopian cartographies of the spaces occupied by the characters in Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy have resolved the tension between utopia and dystopia. By theorizing the cartographies of her ustopia, Atwood establishes herself as a literary cartographer.
Highlights
The 20th century has witnessed despair and frustration to the extent that “the name of this world is dystopia” (Moylan, 2013, p. 42)
This paper explores how Atwood has diegetically constructed dystopian spaces permeated with heterotopic locations of utopian resistance
Theories of space have offered a fertile ground upon which the cartographies of ustopian space have been drawn in Atwood’s trilogy
Summary
The 20th century has witnessed despair and frustration to the extent that “the name of this world is dystopia” (Moylan, 2013, p. 42). Studies on cartographies and literature have gained increasing popularity in academic circles due to the movement of renewal in cultural geography and the emergence of new approaches, especially the strengthening of humanistic geography (Brosseau, 1994) This results in the emergence of research that highlights the geographic and cartographic elements found in literary narratives. The literary text serves to explore the spatial dimensions in the world of literature to reveal its cartographic and imaginative character. In this respect, Hones (2008) observes that literary cartography takes on new directions and new inspirations in the interdisciplinary environment
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